Bulletin Spring 1988

25th Anniversary Lectures The second of the series of five 25th Anniversary lectures will be held on Wednesday, 22nd June at the Sir Run Run Shaw Hall. Professor Paul C.W. Chu, TLL Temple Chair Professor of Science, University of Houston, will speak on 'High Temperature Superconductivity: Past, Present, and Future'. The lecture will be organized by the Faculty of Science. Professor Chu is a distinguished physicist well- known for his contributions to the fields of superconductivity, magnetism and dielectrics. He and his colleagues at the University of Houston have astonished scientists all over the world by creating new kinds of superconducting materials that lose electrical resistance at cold, rather than ultra cold temperatures. The discovery is regarded as one of the most important in physics in recent years which not only has intrinsic scientific interest but also opens up the possibility of a wide-range of industrial and commercial applications in computing, communication, power transmission, and transport. Professor Chu has received numerous awards for his outstanding achievements in this field. The Faculty of Social Science has at the same time announced that the renowned Nobel Laureate, Dr. Milton Friedman, has now accepted the University's invitation to come to Hong Kong to deliver the 25th Anniversary Lecture on 27th September. Dr. Friedman, an eminent economist, is presently Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He was Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago (1963-1982), president of the American Economics Association (1967),and is recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal (1951) and Nobel Prize in Economics (1976). Important publications by Dr. Friedman include Essays in Positive Economics, A Theory of the Consumption Function, Capitalism and Freedom, A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960 (with A.J. Schwartz), and Dollars and Deficits. His more popular works include Free to Choose and An Economist's Protest, A total of five Anniversary Lectures by internationally acclaimed scholars, each to be presented by one of the University's five faculties, will take place during the year. The first of the series, presented by the Faculty of Medicine, was already held in March when Dr. Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of the AIDS virus and a prominent virologist, gave a lecture entitled ‘AIDS — Where Do We Go From Here?', to an enthusiastic audience comprising 1,000 academics, medical personnel, students and members of the public. The remaining Anniversary Lectures, as already announced, will be given by Professor Abraham Charnes of the University of Texas in Austin, and Professor Yu Ying-shih of the Princeton University.